Daredevil eyes New York skyscraper walk after Grand Canyon stunt

Daredevil Nik Wallenda had barely finished a death-defying high-wire walk
across a gorge near the Grand Canyon when he set his sights on his next
challenge - a tightrope suspended between two New York City skyscrapers.

Daredevil Nik Wallenda had barely finished a death-defying high-wire walk across a gorge near the Grand Canyon when he set his sights on his next challenge - a tightrope suspended between two New York City skyscrapers.

The seventh-generation high-wire artist said he hoped his next stunt would be a tightrope walk between the Empire State building and the Chrysler building in New York.

The 34-year-old had just completed a giddy 22-minute walk 1500 ft above the Little Colorado River in Arizona, a feat watched by a global TV audience of several million.

Wallenda became the first person to attempt and finish the walk across the gorge, performing the breathtaking challenge without a harness or safety net. Carrying only a pole for balance, just one slip would have been fatal for the artist, who has lost several members of his famous "Flying Wallendas" circus family to the high wire.

Amid high winds and swirling dust, Wallenda paused and crouched twice during the walk so that he could "get the rhythm out of the rope".